The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 1, 1949, Page 1

——— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,210 Federal Grand Ju Plans Starfed Rolling for | ESPIONAGE PROBEIS REQUESTED v Senate Cor;nfinee Seeks Secret Government Files Which Is Denied WASHINGTON, June 1 —(P—At- torney General Tom Clark today refused to give a Senate Commit- tee the secret government files on 164 officials of foreign governments. Clark told a Senate Judicial sub- committee the information is “ex- tremely delicate” and even involves | Ambassadors and Foreign Ministers of European governments. He promised to cooperate with the committee, and to give “all the in- | formation possible.” Chairman McCarran (D-Nev) said | the committee does not want the files temselves—but he wants a “re- | velation of the basic facts” in the files. Instead of the files, McCarran de- manded Clark produce information to show how many Communists or | Communist agents have entered this country in the last five years | and are known to have engaged in; “espionage or related activities.” | MockDuel | InAirls (alledbfls Proposal by Congress ! Turned Dawn by Joint Chiefs of Staff WASHINGTON, June 1.—#—The | mock duel in the sky ketween the| Air Force’s mighty B-36 and the‘ Navy's best Banshee jet fighters! suggested by Congress has been turned down by the joint chiefs of staff for security reasons. i The recommendation to call off the public feud air battle was first | made known in a copyrigmed story in the Washington Times- | Herald shortly after the I-louse} Armed Services Committee yester- day ordered ‘a full investigation of why the B-36 came to be the heavyweight darling of the -Air Force. The possibility remained that | such a bang-you're-dead test might be conducted later in deepest sec- recy. g But the joint command, in a let- | ter forwarded to Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the committee by Secre- tary of Defense Johnson, said such 2 battle between the two best! planes of the two ‘rival services would divulge vital information. The letter also said such an event would serve no useful purpose. The showdown sky fight was first approved May 18 by the Armed Services group to help settle con- flicting claims by the Navy and the Air Force. The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON — One of the most important and amazing as- pects of the Congressional” furor over B-36’s probably won't be touched on by the House Armed Services Committee. It is the man- | ® ner in which ingratiating, likable Floyd Odlum, son of a Michigan preacher who became the barefoot boy of Wall Street, has become a gentleman of backstage importance in the Truman Administration. Also important is the manner in which Mr. Odlum has sucked var- ious big corporations under his con- trol, sometimes by buying up di- rectors. Yet Floyd Odium was called to the White House not long ago and offered the job of chairman of the National Resources Board, the vit- ally important job for which the Senate recently turned down ex- Gov. Mon Wallgren of Washington. It has also been reported that Od- (Contigued on Page Four) | i Me, May 26. Biggest, Best of July 4th BERLIN 'VETERANS' PENSION BILL IS PASSED BY HOUSE, SENT SENATE ”Unable-lo-_%rk” Provi- sion Is Knocked Out by Vote of 172 fo 57 WASHINGTON, June 1—(®— The House passed and sent to the Senate today a World War I and II Veterans’ Penton Bill after krocking out an “unable-to-work” provision. Passage came quickly after a | spirited fight over the unemploy- ability proposal recommended by the Veterans'- Committee. The 'pro- vision went out of the bill by a standing vote of 192 to 57. There were no other changes pro- posed to the bill, estimated to cost, . its present form, $65,000,000,000 in addition to what now is being paid in pensions under Veterans’ Administration regulations. The one-sidedness of the fight over the unemployatility clause led te abandonment of a planned baitle o ellminate World War II veterans from the bill's provisions. There was less than two hours ot debate on the bill, which actually writes into permanent law regula- ticns under which pensions now are being paid to many veterans. A much more costly bill was de- | feated by the House in March. Chairman Rankin (D-Miss) ot the Veterans Committée had op- !posed the unable-to-work provision as unfair and discriminatory. The effect of the provision was !to say that a veteran who can work half a normal day or earn half a normal day's pay is not eligible for a pension. U. S. Jet Fighlers;‘ Bound for Germany Held Up by Weather LONDON, June 1-—#—A Ger- many-bound mass flight of 15 United States Air Force jet fighters { s grounded in Greenland by bad weather, an Air Force spokesman said here teday. The flock of F-80's left, Bangor, STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 tonight. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah due in port Fri- day 8 a. m. and sails south at 9:30 am. Baranof scheduled southbound on Monday. STOCK QUGTATIONS NEW YORK, June 1.—M—Clos- ‘fing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 91%, ' Anaconda 28, Curtiss- ‘Wright 8%, International Harvester 23%, Kennecott 43}, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 13%, U. S. Steel 65%, Pound $4.02%. Sales today were 1,140,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 167.98, rails 44.60, util- ities 34.95. o0 000000000 . * WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 am. PST. In Juneau— Maximum, 61; minimum, 47. At Airport— Maximum 63; minimum 46. FORECAST (Juneau and Vielakty) Mostly cloudy with an oc- casfonal light rain shower to- night and Thursday. Lowest tonight near 45; highest on ‘Thursday about 55. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 1:30 a.m. today In Juneau — .25 inches; since July 1, 112,64 inches. At Airport — .08 inches; since July 1, 64.03 inches. e 00000000 | The blgg?sl and best Fourth ot | July celebration ever will e four vieeks from this week-end! No one could doubt it, after see'ng the hfl‘ start rolling at last night's meeung ir the City Council chambers. | Get out the adJectlves—stup:n— dous, colossal, thrilling, magnifi- | cent, superb! The three-day ex-| travaganza is on the way. In gen- eral, the big show will follow the successful pattern of last year. | The greatest advance exc.tement is in the campaigns for queen ot the Independence Day Carnival. No one knows who will reign until the minute the crown is brought out at the Saturday night Corona- ! tion Ball. ‘The queen centest will continue until midnight July 1. Announce- ment of the orening date will be made after the committee meet- ing next Tuesday night at 8 oclock in the Council chambers. QUEEN QUALIFICATIONS To be eligible for queen, a girl must be of an age from 16 to 25 years inclusive, single, and a Gas- tineau Channel resident for at ast one year. It is taken for 3ranted that she will be pretty and charming! i All organizations planning to| enter candidates are asked to re-| port at next Tuesday's meeting. Small organizations can go lo» gether in sponsoring a young woman for the honor. H The central committee plans tu; have fine prizes for all the girlsi ,ir the “royal court.” | 'To help defray costs of their cam-. paigns, each sponsoring organiza- tion will be given 10 percent of its’ ticket sales. The Rev. Leo H. Sweeney has; consented to serve as official tasu- lator, once the contest is under| way. He w.ll check standing of con- testants as of noon each day,| although the *“score” will not be| “flsclcsed until the coronation. CALENDAR OF EVENT3 The big Coronation Ball at the| Elks’ Hall will open the celebration | Saturday, July 2. i Ball games and other sports are tentetively scheduled tor Sunday afternoon, with Yacht Club- -spon- | sored boat races Sunday evening, and the first of two theworks shows Sunday night, The fun zone on Seward Street| will be open both Sunday and! Monday. | On Monday, the Fourth of July,! will come the big parade lead by the colors and the Juneau City/ Band and in which will be many veautiful floats. Children’s sports | will occupy the afternoon, and the second big display of. fireworks that | night will close the celebration. EXTRA ATTRACTIONS Announcement cannot be made yet as to the air show—the cominit- tee is trying to get a pair of jet! planes. The USS Pasadena will te in port. The Navy cruiser carries some 1,100 men. Arrangements have yet to be completed for use of huge scows in the bay for staging the fireworks show, but no hitch is expected. The fireworks committee is busy —~these experts already have plan- ned the display in detail, and ma- ter.als are ordered. WONDERFUL AWARDS The automobile’ which is to be the grand award has been ordered, and it is expected that other mmin prizes will be similar to those of lest year. At the 1948 event, the top awards to queen contestants were trips to Seattle and Anchor- age. All organizations are asked to start planning their floats for the v.g celebration which is just a month away. Booths in the Seward fun zone will be offered - to organizations first; then, after a date to be de- cided at the next meeting, they will be offered to individuals, ‘The Moose will be in charge of the parade, the Elks of children's :ports and races. Joe Werpez, presi- dent of the Juneau Base:all | League has the responsibility for the ball games. Joe Sadlier of the B. M. Behrends Bank will be treasurer again this year. Several “sparkplugs” of last year's event were at last night's meeting, among them Curly Davis, Bud Nance and Al Zenger. Among groups represented which were not previously mentioned are the Business and 'Professional Women's Club, the Central Labor | Council, the Teen Age Club, Ameri- can Legion, senfor and junior | | counter-blockade. | | | ¥ vishinsky strongly objected, | against Hiss. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDA Y. DISCUSS PROBLEM | Foreign Mimsfers Tryingto Reach Agreement at - Paris Conference (By Associated Pre:s) The Foreign Ministers confer- ence in Paris turned to a discus- sion of the Berlin problem today. No important agreement has been reached in the talks on unitying Germany. The three Western Powers yesterday turned down a Russian request to invite a 22-man | delegation from the Soviet-spon-! sored German People’s Congress to present their views to the For- | eign Ministers. Western cbservers believe Russia is more likely to reach agreement on trade between the Soviet Eastern Zone of Germany and West Ger- many. The East, which is largely agrarian, needs the manufactured goods of West Germany. The Rus- sian zone was hurt by the Allied The Western plan reportedly calls for the establishment of spe- vml four-power committees to regu- late trade, currency, and communi- cations between Berlin and the| Western Zone. Berlin is inside the Eastern Zone—about 100 miles from | 7 4 19 JUNE 1, 1949 MEMBER A\Q()( IATED PRPS\ PRICE TEN CENTS l S5rd annual Memorial Day race at miles per hour. (# Wirephoto. Indianapolis Speed way. 'l‘he Blue Crown Special, carrying l'!ill Holland of Reading, Pa., flashes past the finish line to win lh! Holland's average for the 500 miles was 121.327 ) the Western border. The Russians have offered to pay ' the West Berln Railway strikers| 60 percent of their wages in West Marks. The men have demanded 100 percent payment in West Marks which are four times more valuable | than the Soviet East Mark. The 12,000 strikers will vote on the Russian offer but strike leaders | predicted the men would reject it. | FOUR POWER CONTROL { PARIS, June 1—(#—The Foreign | Ministers Council today took up the guestion of restor.ng Four-Power | centrol of Berlin and clashed at nce on the veto issue. H American sources said the three| Western Ministers urged that the rule of unanimity be abolished in | Soviet Foreign Minister Andret revived Kommandatura. i[ i | say- ing that unanimous decisions were} ‘the only way to govern.” The Kommandatura, a Four- Power body, governed Berlin in the .mmediate post-war period be(urei the cold war division of the city. It broke up last year following | continued East-West deadlocks. | The issue of Berlin and the | currency situation made up the second item on the agenda of the Foreign Ministers Council. | Before the afternoon’s session of the Four-Power representatives, the three Western Ministers con- ferred among themselves for about | 75 minutes. It was understood that one of the questions discussed was whether the Council should go into ‘restricted” session. HISS TRIAL ON PERJURY CHARGE STARTED INN. Y. NEW YORK, June 1—(M—Whit- taker Chambers, self-styled former | Communist, took the witness stand today to back up a government charge that Alger Hiss lied about his Communist connections. Chambers, who has said he knew Hiss as' a purveyor of government documents to the Reds, was ex- pected to be the main witness Hiss, former State Department employee and high administration diplomat, is accused of perjury. CARDINAL CLUB MEETS | There "will be a meeting of the Cardinal Club tonight: at 8 o'clock in the Parish Hall. Several busi- ness matters must be discussed and the meeting is promised to be short. Chambers of Commerce, the Fili- pino Community, Beta Sigma Phi, Rotary and Lions. Participation by the Juneau C. of C. was to be discussed at to- 1des. The strike started after ~|seized nine | tages. running. % Wirephota. TIN MINERS ARE RIOTING Army fo Fight-Ameri- cans Are Hostages (By The Associated Press The 'Bolivian Cabinet ‘has mobil- zed army reservists from 10 to 50 to cope' with tin mine riots which it says brought about “a state of civil war.” Reports from the strike-torn area |sald the army was “in control of the situation.” Two thousand dynamhe-"url)n[’ miners yesterday battied 200 troops for control of the Patino mining area of Huafuni. high in the An- the government, on Friday, deported 26 men, including some union leaders to Chile. The government said the situation was grave. Striking miners have officials, including Americans, and held them as hos- Unofficial reports said the death list might reach 50. FROM HAINES day's board meeting. Mayor Waino Hendrickson pre-}: s'ded at the meeting’'last night, as he will do at the one Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Arriving. yesterday, ;on Alaska Coastal, ;.John . Schnabel of . the Haines Lumber, Co., Haines, is reg- istered at the Gastineau. IN BOLIVIA Governmenl Mobilizes \Truman will ' Make Major Talk June 11 WASHINGTON, June 1. -i®— The White House said today Pres- ident Truman will make an impor- { tant speech @t Little Rock June 11 during the ahnual reunion of the 35th Division. Presidential Press Secretary C. G. Ross sald Mr. Truman will speak in the stadium there at the dedica- tion of a war memorial. Ross sald the subject of the Pres- ident’s speech has not been de- termined, but he should be inclined to call it a “major” speech. MORE FUNDS FOR ALASKA APPROVED BY SENATE COM. WASHINGTON, June 1.—(M—The Senate appropriations committee to- day approved an allowance to the Public Reads Administration of $1.- 653,000 and contract authority for $2,608,000 for surveys and construc- tion of roads around Ketchikan, Alaska The committee also wrote into the second deficiency bill an appropria- tion of $150,000 for reséarch by the Agriculture Department on Alaskan | problems, It added another $40,500 for care of insane in Alaska. Dodges Flre Hazard ; ,_._m-—-—-— e ————— il it N;rm Houser of Indianapolis, takes to the grass at speed cver 100 niiss an hour as he dedges the flames of burning gasoline and oil from the wreckage of Duke Nalon’s Novi Special, after Nalon crashed during the 500-mile race at Indianapolis Speedway. + Houser, finishing in tenth place, was flagged off while still GOLDEN - JUBILEE AT NOME Celebratiom m memor- ates Gold Rush of ‘99, Birth of Town NOME, Alaska, June 1—(— Nome began its summer-long cele- bration of. its golden anniversary today. It commemorates the gold rush of 1899 and the birth of the town. The o:servance, running from June 1 to Sept. 5, is being spon- fored by Nome business men. The main spark for the festivities is | coming from the Walrus Club of Nome, which embraces a group of public-spirited residents. The advertising campaign to draw tourists to this Northwestern Alaska area includes “first day” ‘cover envelopes. They bear a tri- color seal or cachet, in red, blue and gold. It was designed by Bill Eoucher, publisher of the Nome Nugget, Alaska’s oldest newspaper. ‘Tourist attractions will include Eskimo dancing exhibitions, visits to dredges, mining camps and his- toric landmarks. FROM YAI(UTAT and Mrs. Curtis L. Jones, Mr. CAA personnel from Yakutat, | AL the Baranof. - ryStarts B rldges Case Probe Holland Wins Speedway (Iassu | WITMESSES ARECALLED 10 TESTIFY Side ExcursTo;s Reported Made fo Asserted Commie Fields SAN FRANCISCO, June 1—P— The Federal Grand Jury which in- dicted Harry Bridges resumed its investigation today of that case. At 12:15 pm. it called as a wit- riess Henry Schrimpf of San Fran- ¢lico. Newsmen asked him if he would be a friendly or an un- friendly witness for the government. fe replied, “Perhap’s I'm in be- tween.” There was reliable information that side excursions were taken |-y the jury this morning into the field of asserted Communist in- .uence in West Coast umions. Bridges, head of the CIO Leng- shoremen’s and Warehousemen's Union, was indicted last week, lzharged with perjury and con- i spiracy gaining his naturalizat.on papers in 1945, He is a native of Australia. Indicted with him, but lonly on conspiracy charges, were (two of his witnesses at the natural- izatlon hearing. Arraignment for all three is set for June 9. | Today Federal Judge Michael J. {Roche granted Bridges permission w0 leave the court’s jurisdiction so he can attend union meetings to- night and tomorrow at Portland !and = Seattle. % Five of ‘the witnesses subpoenaed for today's Grand Jury question- ng were. identified by the govern- {ment as Sam’ Darcy, onetfme Com- munist; Frank Slaby, Bruce Jones, Don F. Magufre and Walter Lam- cert, All except Darcy are San Francisco 'men. Darcy now Hves mn Philadelphia. The furst woman witness to show up in the case, Roberta Lovell of Los Angeles, sald she formerly had Leen Harry Bridges' secretaly. She | formerly was married to Bruce B. Jones but now is the wife of a Los Angeles electi.cian, she added. She also described herself as a witness who will be “something less tnan friendly” to the government. It was not learned when the |Grand Jury would undertake an’ examination of a statement by U.5. Attorney General Tom Clark that {there were reports of attempted tampering with witnesses who testitied against Bridges. Clark ordered an invest'gaticn. Divorce Is Granied On Peculiar Charge LONDON, June 1 — (P — Mrs. Catherine Jane Allabakhsh told di- vorce court her Pakistani husband, Ell, sicked their four-year-old son on her. She sald he taught the child fo sinch, bite and kick her. He'd hold her down, she testified while the toy kicked her and tell iim, “Go on, son, harder.” Allabakhsh denied everv hit ot it. But the judge gave his wife the divorce—and custody of the son. U. WASHINGTON PRESIDENT WILL TAKE BIG" JOB SEATTLE, June 1—®—Dr. Ray- imond B. Allen, president of the iumvemty of Washington, said yes- 1 1 1 terday he will offer to serve on a part-time kasis as director - of medical services for the National Military Unification program. Following discussions with the Board of Regents, Dr. Allen said he does not intend to ask for a 1 full leave of absence to take the post. Under terms he outlined in an interview yesterday, Dr. Allen would perform active service dur- ing the three summer months and serve in an advisory capacity dur- |ing the next full university school lyenr, | Defense Secretary Louis Johnson |offered Dr. Allen the position sev- ,eral weeks ago. " After one meeting at which they reached no decision, are the regents scheduled another ses- sion for June 10.